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January 13, 2012
The PUCT intends to act on Commissioner Kenneth Anderson's "Category Three" issues relating to resource adequacy by the end of the summer, Commissioners agreed at yesterday's open meeting.
January 12, 2012
Great Bay Energy, LLC has been elected to the National Energy Marketers Association's Executive Committee.
January 4, 2012
The PUCT has assigned Project 40073 for a rulemaking to implement HB 2133.
January 4, 2012
PUCT Staff have posted in Project 39870 an updated estimate of the installed generating capacity in ERCOT, including the estimated total used for the "small fish swim free" market power exemption under P.U.C Subst. R. 25.504(c).
January 3, 2012
AES Eastern Energy Limited Partnership (AES Eastern Energy) and 13 affiliated entities have filed petitions for relief under Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
December 29, 2011
FERC has approved a change in the allocation of NYISO's budgeted annual operating costs and Commission-assessed regulatory fees among NYISO market participants, with the new allocation to be maintained for a period of at least five years.
December 29, 2011
FirstEnergy Solutions has petitioned FERC, in a complaint, to direct PJM to allocate incremental real-time congestion charges to all transmission customers (EL12-19).
December 23, 2011
The Midwest ISO has filed changes to tighten mitigation of payments to generators under Revenue Sufficiency Guarantee (RSG) charges, and also proposed a new allocation for RSG costs from voltage and local reliability issues.
December 23, 2011
Recent changes to the Reliability Pricing Model capacity mechanism filed by PJM are meant to inflate capacity prices, the Maryland PSC said in a protest at FERC.
December 21, 2011
The New York PSC approved without modification a revised auction plan for the divestiture of fossil generation owned by Rochester Gas & Electric and an affiliate (10/24) . As previously reported, the revised auction plan separates the original bundle of assets to remove less attractive assets, in…
December 16, 2011
FERC generally denied rehearing requests regarding Order 745, which ordered demand response to be paid the full LMP under certain conditions, but did clarify circumstances in which the full LMP shall not be paid to demand resources.
December 5, 2011
Consumers Energy has announced the cancellation of a proposed clean coal plant project near Bay City and the anticipated suspension of operation of seven smaller coal-fired units in 2015.
December 5, 2011
Entergy Corporation and ITC Holdings Corp. announced this morning that the Boards of Directors of both companies have approved a definitive agreement under which Entergy will divest and then merge its electric transmission business into ITC.
December 5, 2011
ERCOT has filed Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) 432 to institute parameters governing ERCOT's procurement and deployment of Resources that may be used to alleviate imminent Emergency Conditions in a manner not otherwise delineated in the Protocols and Operating Guides, specifically, in taking…
November 28, 2011
PJM Reports Amount Load Overpaid in 2009-2011 due to Error
November 28, 2011
FERC accepted but suspended the California ISO's tariffs to eliminate convergence bidding at intertie locations, finding that the proposal may be unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential, and ordered a technical conference (ER11-4580).
November 18, 2011
In a final rule, FERC has dropped its earlier proposal to require that, if more than one affiliate of the same entity participates in an interstate natural gas pipeline open season, then none of those affiliates may release any capacity obtained in that open season pursuant to a pro rata allocation…
November 10, 2011
PJM has sought a declaratory order from FERC to resolve uncertainty regarding how PJM should recover from its members the costs allocated to PJM by FERC for certain phase angle regulator (PAR) transmission facilities to be installed by International Transmission Company on ITC's transmission system…
November 10, 2011
ERCOT has filed several Nodal Protocol Revision Requests aimed at mitigating price suppression during the deployment of reserve services in order to more accurately reflect the value of the service.
November 9, 2011
TC Ravenswood has filed a complaint at FERC regarding the New York PSC's September order that generators are required to obtain the PSC's consent, pursuant to Public Service Law (PSL) §70, to discontinue blackstart service.
October 31, 2011
Wholesale prices in ERCOT have to recognize scarcity of generation assets, "and that will eventually flow through to the retail business," Energy Future Holdings CEO John Young said during an earnings call Friday.
October 27, 2011
The Illinois Senate today voted down the latest version of the Tenaksa clean coal bill (SB 678), but the measure is still alive.
October 24, 2011
Entergy Corporation announced this morning that it has reached an agreement with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC to acquire the Rhode Island State Energy Center, a 550-megawatt power plant located in Johnston, Rhode Island, for approximately $346 million, subject to closing adjustments…
October 24, 2011
Responding to a New York PSC order (see 7/15) , Rochester Gas & Electric has submitted a modified auction plan to split the divestiture of its (and its affiliate Cayuga Energy's) gas-fired generation into separate auctions (07-M-0906).
October 21, 2011
FERC yesterday adopted as final new rules for the compensation of regulation service in the jurisdictional RTOs, retaining a capacity payment and adding a performance-based payment (RM11-7).
